Haiti

[minimo]

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama administration says it will allow Haitians already in the U.S. illegally to remain because of this week's catastrophic earthquake.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano granted the temporary protected status on Friday.

The protection is only available to Haitians already in the country as of last Tuesday.

On Wednesday, Napolitano temporarily halted deportations of Haitians, even those already in detention.

www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9D8EIM80&show_article=1

[minimo]

Some of Haiti's most fragile - its children - have arrived at Miami area hospitals and for a few, Miami may become their new home.

So far, 23 patients from the earthquake have been treated at Jackson Memorial Hospital, with countless more likely to be airlifted from the island for treatment. Florida Sen. Bill Nelson has contacted all the children's hospitals in Florida and requested that they receive critically injured Haitian children in the aftermath of the earthquake.

Nelson on Friday said he also plans to introduce a "major Haitian relief bill."

But the injured won't likely be the only children coming to Florida.

"Operation Pierre Pan," as its being called, is an effort to relocate the thousands of children likely orphaned by the natural disaster in Port-au-Prince. Many of the children could already have relatives in Miami and around the U.S.

www.nbcmiami.com/news/local-beat/Operation-Pierre-Pan-Starts-at-Miami-Hospitals-81767767.html

[2ff2r]

I have this assumption that the Obama administration will use the horrible desaster in Haiti to their advantage in the coming weeks or so, give or take. Now every US Media source is covering the quake, there isn't no one looking at what the "other guy" is doing.
If I remember, didn't Emanual say ".. never let a serious crisis go to waste..."? He never said if it had to be in the US.

[harleyman]

Jan 15, 2010 19:51:14 GMT -5 minimo said:

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama administration says it will allow Haitians already in the U.S. illegally to remain because of this week's catastrophic earthquake.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano granted the temporary protected status on Friday.

The protection is only available to Haitians already in the country as of last Tuesday.

On Wednesday, Napolitano temporarily halted deportations of Haitians, even those already in detention.

www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9D8EIM80&show_article=1

Hey Mo!

I would like to say that I am surprised about this but, what do you expect from someone that needs to live up to their Nobel Prize right?

If someone could explain what they believe his motivation for doing this is, I would greatly appreciate it.

[Ryan]

I'm afraid of the slippery slope this could open up. What's next? Mexico is too poor to deport illegals to? Oh wait, Mexico is already poor. Well now Obama doesn't have to wait for an excuse.

[minimo]

Jan 16, 2010 15:51:28 GMT -5 harleyman said:

Hey Mo!

I would like to say that I am surprised about this but, what do you expect from someone that needs to live up to their Nobel Prize right?

If someone could explain what they believe his motivation for doing this is, I would greatly appreciate it.

Harleyman!!! So good to see you... Love ya man!!

[Godot showed up]

Thousands--maybe 10s of thousands--are dead and are going to die because Obama didn't allow the military to take charge from day 1. No other aspect of the US government than its military is geared for such rapid response and penetration of difficult geography. He's killed them, these people, 1000s dead under slabs of stone who didn't have to die, more to come from cholera, if I'm any judge of what's to come. All in service to this man's ideology, which lives and breathes detestation of the American military--itself manifestly the single greatest force for good in all of human history. For his ideology, he let these people die. That's cause and effect, the most unmerciful standard of all; I hold myself to it; how much more must Presidents be held to this standard?

I don't know who CBS is polling, and we can assume their poll is biased by at least 30%, but that would leave at least 50% who thinik this foolish and frankly murderous mismanagement of American resources is just swell. Well, it will take some time for the butcher's bill for this to be fully read, through this media, but the truth will be known in time. And then, even if many Americans remain fooled by this, Obama's name will become a curse word in the Caribbean, much as Andrew Jackson's is still a curse among the Cherokee.

www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2010/01/18/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry6113379.shtml